Bluebirds Decide Not to Migrate! Jemma Green, Bring Back the Bluebirds Project Coordinator It is amazing but true: some of the Western Bluebirds from our reintroduced population in the Cowichan Valley have opted to spend the entire winter on Vancouver Island rather than migrate to wintering grounds on the Washington and Oregon mainland, as expected.
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New video about the South Sound Prairies
The South Puget Sound Program of the Center for Natural Lands Management is excited to share with you our new video about the South Sound Prairies. For use by the South Sound Prairies conservation community, this video aims to provide background information about the prairies as well as provide some insight about the type and breadth of
Castilleja levisecta 2014 Global Population Estimates Released
Golden paintbrush (Castilleja levisecta) has been the focus of much restoration effort in the Puget Sound region for over a decade. With substantial funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, land managers with a large number of partners, including land trusts, state and federal agencies, as well as other organizations, have made enormous strides
Call for reporting color banded Streaked Horned Larks on their wintering grounds
The current range of the federally-threatened Streaked Horned Lark includes the Willamette Valley, Columbia River Islands, Washington Coast, and South Puget Sound prairies. A large proportion of the South Puget Sound lark population has been monitored since 2006. The 2014 breeding season was extremely favorable for larks, and over 100 South Sound lark nestlings received
Bring Back the Bluebirds Project Update: Eight successful nests in 2014
GOERT and our partners have undertaken an ambitious species recovery project to restore an extirpated regional Western Bluebird population to the Salish Sea area. 2014 was our 3rd year of active translocations and releases of breeding bluebirds and nestlings to the Cowichan Valley. Learn more at www.goert.ca/bluebird. Last week marked the official end of the
Bi-state conservation project receives second phase of funding from USFWS State Wildlife Grant
The Center for Natural Lands Management (CNLM), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and nine other partners continue to conduct habitat restoration on twenty-five priority prairie-oak sites on over 1,000 acres of public and private land in Washington and Oregon through a US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) competitive State Wildlife Grant (SWG). The
New! Wetland Prairie Restoration Resource
The University of Oregon Environmental Leadership Program is Proud to Announce the Launch of “Wetland Prairie Restoration: An Online Resource” Eugene, Oregon | June 9, 2014 ‘Wetland Prairie Restoration: An Online Resource’, a comprehensive introduction to the history and ecology of wetland prairies in the Willamette Valley and overview of the restoration process, is now
Upcoming Managed Grazing Workshop
Managed Grazing Workshop Series Poster Managed-intensive Grazing in Western Washington A 3-part course for anyone who manages livestock on pastures in the Northwest In a series of three classes which blend classroom learning with hands-on site visits, livestock producers big and small will learn how to customize a management system that will enable their pastures
“Treat it like an insect, not a grizzly bear” – Takeaways from a Checkerspot Workshop in California
“I can’t stop thinking about my landscape-scale view of the world and how it has been forever modified by the hilltop landscapes of the Bay and Quino checkerspots” (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Mary Linders, speaking about Taylor’s checkerspot recovery and management). In late January, thirty people traveled from as far as San Diego and Vancouver
Metro helps bring back a rare plant: a Penstemon
If you’ve ever heard of a Penstemon, you’ll probably think of a short-ish and showy plant that likes to keep its roots dry. At Metro’s Penstemon Prairie, south of Forest Grove along the Tualatin River, there is an unusual penstemon that likes wetlands. While this Penstemon species was originally collected and identified in Washington County